Growing up watching my old man hunt taught me what mattered. Twenty years later, after more failures than successes and hunts across public ground from Kentucky to Colorado, I'm still figuring out what bowhunting actually means when nobody's watching.

When people think about living the hunting and fishing lifestyle, they usually picture wide open spaces, acreage, and the freedom to do whatever you want on your own land. But the reality is, a lot of us are making it work in the city. That means getting creative with how we process our harvests and maintain our connection to the land, even when that "land" is a backyard in Louisville.